Paris seethes over foetus find

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THE DEMONS ARE VERY ACTIVE.

 

Paris seethes over foetus find

 

Alex Duval Smith in Paris

Aug. 4. — The French government is desperately attempting to quell

fears that macabre medical experiments are being carried out in the

public health service after the revelation that 351 foetuses and stillborn

babies were secretly preserved in formalin in a Paris hospital

The discovery at Saint Vincent De Paul hospital of jars of

preserved "anatomical pieces'' — aborted foetuses and babies, as well

as the body of a child which was three days old when it died – was

made public on Tuesday by the health minister, Mr Xavier Bertrand. But

claims by public health officials yesterday that the store at the hospital

was an "administrative mistake'' fuelled suspicions of a cover-up.

Mr Bertrand was clearly shocked when he announced that some of

the "pieces'' preserved at Saint Vincent de Paul were 25 years old.

He confirmed that parents had not been informed of the practice, which

had continued until this year.

Prime Minister Mr Dominique De Villepin has announced two formal

inquiries and a criminal investigation has been launched. The secretary

general of Paris hospitals, claimed only five people had access to the

chamber containing the "pieces."

— The Independent

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